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Therefore I should not hesitate
to say that I think it a greater advantage that all the Greeks should be your
enemies under democracy than your friends under oligarchy. For with free men I
do not think that you would have any difficulty in making peace whenever you
wished, but with an oligarchical state I do not believe that even friendly
relations could be permanent, for the few can never be well disposed to the
many, nor those who covet power to those who have chosen a life of equal
privileges.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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